For potential grad students: if you're interested in this kind of work on assessing and improving close relationships measures, our group just got a grant to do five more years of it. Join our team!

PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work! Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :) #PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky

#SocialPsychology #PsychSciSky Submitting an EASP 2026 symposium on intergroup relations, contact, or dehumanization? If you think I could add to your symposium, drop me a DM.

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

I'm looking for research that shows that if leaders do something horrendous, they lose support from not-hardcore supporters. Any leads?

📣📣We're going for round two!!!📣📣 I'll be reviewing graduate applicants again this year. Come join my growing lab! Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com Info about the social program: www.psychology.pitt.edu/graduate/soc...

Listen, I'm gonna multiply these two coefficients. If you claim I'm doing a mediation analysis, that's on you.

If this is helpful for anyone going on the social psych tenure track job market in US, here are my Colby (in 2018) and UIC (2023) statements: osf.io/ef7s3/files/... My lab website has links to other people's materials. Of course the markets were very different back then. www.pbandjlab.com/resources

At least he was fired. My university did not have the guts to fire the professor who stalked two students for years.

Do you know a good candidate for the SIPS leadership role? Or maybe you are such a person? Then, nominate them (or yourself) to be a member of the SIPS Executive Committee! 📅 The nominations are open until August 24, 2025, at 11:59 PM US Pacific Time, so wait no further!

Do I know any Americans who'd be willing to share reference letters they have written / had written for them? I need some examples for my Dutch advisors :)

This is genuinely one of the best explanations I've ever read about permutation testing! 🦙 www.jwilber.me/permutationt... Thank you ‪@jwilber.bsky.social‬ for breaking this down so clearly

🗳️ We are currently soliciting nominations for the Executive Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! 🙋 Any member may be nominated, and self-nominations are welcome. ✨ SIPS values diversity; we encourage nominations of members from all backgrounds.

I'm putting together some datasets relevant to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (for teaching purposes) and wondered if anyone has suggestions for interesting datasets on these themes. You can see what I'm aiming at in the first chapter. psyteachr.github.io/sdg-data/

This working paper looks really cool. "The Education-Innovation Gap" 🧵🧵🧵

😱gust is here, too soon. If you're teaching a class on racial inequality, policing, and/or institutions, I have a teaching guide on institutional interactions with readings, resources, and a sample syllabus to take the edge off.

Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships If you’ve recently earned a Ph.D. in any scientific field and want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research, consider applying. Deadline: October 1, 2025 Apply here: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

The U-M Dept of Psych is hiring! We seek a tenure-track scholar exploring human cognition with generative AI—pushing the boundaries between biological and artificial minds. Apply at lnkd.in/eF2EXmJz

Vassar College is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in cognitive science. vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar... I'll be at #CogSci2025 - happy to chat about the position and life at Vassar.

Another semester, another moment to thank that guy from Rice University who made that syllabus maker thing. I love you wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

Job market question: Do materials already get reviewed / people invited before official deadlines? Trying to figure out if I should wait until the last minute to increase the number of publications out.

📣 Heads-up that our amazing dept (Berkeley Psych) is anticipating hiring *two* TT Asst Profs this Fall, under the themes of (1) Social & Personality Psychology, and (2) Biological Basis of Behavior. Official job ads coming soon... Send qs for (1) to Iris Mauss/Serena Chen, (2) to Linda Wilbrecht

The Stanford GSB is hiring in macro & micro OB! If you do sociology, psychology, OB, strategy, management, computational social science, please apply. On the macro side, mid-career folks are especially invited to apply. See here👇 www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty...

Do I know anyone who works in New Zealand who would share their psych TT cover letter? #SocialPsySky #PsySky

I saw Ian McKellen today, best day ever.

“In 1946 amid persistent racial divisions, popular radio series Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination and exposing the KKK’s bigotry. We find lasting impacts…” dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Excellent opportunity for a PhD position with the wonderful supervisors Frank Renkewitz and Moritz Heene job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... “Models, Measures, Moderators - Exploration and Explanation of Heterogeneity in Psychological Replications” - great topic for a PhD!

How long are research statements in social psychology for US TT jobs? I have received very conflicting advice and examples, ranging from "max 2 pages" to 5 page long statements.

On the last day of my vacation and we were just awarded a grant to study the effects of a Dungeons and Dragons intervention on prejudice 🥳🥳🥳

🎉 New face database just dropped! The Israeli Face Database (IFD) is a massive, diverse, and richly annotated set of facial images — now published in Behavior Research Methods. Thread 🧵👇

I'm currently reading "The Professor is in" and she talks about submitting sample syllabi along with your other materials. Is this a thing in psych?

"Simpson's gender-equality paradox" surely deserve some award for best title 👑 The gender-equality paradox seems really central to some narrative people have constructed (and successfully sold). I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if it turned out 100% confounding.> www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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I’m looking for a postdoctoral scholar to join me in the Self & Society Laboratory at UC Riverside! Sharing would be much appreciated! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02104

I have to grade 18 undergraduate theses before I go on vacation on Friday and I'm very grateful for all the students who submitted their assignments a few hours before the deadline instead of at midnight.

Starting to look like I might not be able to work at Harvard anymore due to recent funding cuts. If you know of any open statistical consulting positions that support remote work or are NYC-based, please reach out! 😅

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

I'm looking for a new Lab Manager to join me, my amazing incoming PhD students @isabellafavalos.bsky.social and @maceygrisso.bsky.social, and our fantastic undergraduate RAs in the Emotional Lives Lab at UC Riverside. Sharing would be much appreciated! jobsportal.ucr.edu/jobs/35754189

Registration for the Person Memory Meeting (Oct 13-16 in Lisbon, POR) is open! Info is here jacquelinemchen.wixsite.com/personmemory

Just a shout-out to all the psychologists who shared their job markets materials publicly! Such an easy and simple way of leveling the playing field and ensuring that everybody has access to high-quality examples.

My student wants to conduct a multi-level mediation analysis. She has two grouping factors (i.e. rater and participant), however the mediation package only allows one. Are there other packages we can use to do causal mediation that support multilevel models with two grouping factors?

Any reading recommendations for causal inference on geographical data? Particularly papers discussing SUTVA violations would be amazing. #CausalSky

🥳Excited to share that I am joining Columbia July 2025 @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Looking for🚨lab managers🚨postdocs🚨grad students! Pls REPOST🙏 We study⭐️person perception⭐️social cognition using experimental, cross-cultural, & computational methods! App👉shorturl.at/5UVPl More👉shorturl.at/q18GM

Today I reviewed a paper that used DiD for causal identification but it's county-level data and a treatment that definitely spills and it took all my self-control to not include this meme in my review.

I recently read a paper where scientists used a database containing 80+ million US smartphones to locate people's houses, linked this with rental and house price data to estimate SES, and eventually investigate SES segregation.

Out now: our paper on how to deidentify data sets in the social sciences while navigating privacy concerns. The paper includes a step-by-step de-identification guide and two worked examples, with tons of accompanying material on OSF. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Infancy researchers: This is a longshot but does anyone have access to the imaginary animal stimuli used in the classic studies on infant categorization by Leslie Cohen and Barbara Younger (Kim Plunkett, Gert Westermann, Emily Mather, and others have also used similar stimuli)? If

You can still apply to this position until May 25. If this is a topic that sounds interesting, and you want to work in an intellectually stimulating environment, on a research question that matters, at a department with very nice colleagues, with the freedom and resources to do what we want, apply!

New paper out in PSPB: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... We investigated whether historical Ku Klux Klan presence in an area is associated with higher levels of modern-day implicit bias.

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/